Hazardous Wastes, Industrial Disasters, and Environmental Health Risks [electronic resource] : Local and Global Environmental Struggles /
Adeola, Francis O.author.
The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline. This book focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial toxic disasters, contamination of communities and the environment, and the subsequent adverse health effects among exposed populations.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: Hazardous Wastes, Disasters and Health Risks * Sociology of Hazardous Wastes, Disasters, and Risk * Hazardous and Toxic Wastes as Social Problem * Taxonomy of Hazardous Wastes * PART II: Electronic Wastes, Persistent Organic Pollutants, and Health Effects * Electronic Waste: The Dark Side of High-Tech Revolution * Environmental Health Risks of Persistent Organic Compounds * PART III: Contaminated Communities and Regulatory Responses * Communities Contaminated by Toxic Wastes and Industrial Disasters: Selected Cases * The Regulatory Frameworks * PART IV: Conclusion * Critical Environmental Justice Movement.
The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline. This book focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial toxic disasters, contamination of communities and the environment, and the subsequent adverse health effects among exposed populations.
Environmental sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Environment.
Area studies.
Sociology.
Environmental health.
Environmental Sociology.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Environment, general.
Area Studies.
Sociology, general.
Environmental Health.